GILROY
– The Gilroy City Council will consider the following items of
interest at its Monday meeting:
GILROY – The Gilroy City Council will consider the following items of interest at its Monday meeting:
• An update from City Administrator Jay Baksa on the city’s budget situation. The city is expecting to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars due to the economic downturn and increasing employee costs, and could get hit for $1.8 million more a year depending on how the state’s budget shortfall plays out.
• A proposal to renegotiate a consultant’s contract for the Downtown Specific Plan in order to use some of the money as matching funds for a federal grant. City staffers say the federal grant would provide for economic, traffic and parking analysis and could help the city land more grant funding for capital projects in the future.
• A public hearing to review how $60,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant funding will be distributed to community public-service organizations next year.
• A proclamation changing the name of the Uvas Creek Park Preserve to the DeBell Uvas Creek Park Preserve in honor of former City Councilman Dennis DeBell, who bequeathed $1 million for the preserve.
• The procedural first reading of an ordinance approving a development agreement that could grant up to $5.5 million in incentives for the Newman Development Corp.’s Pacheco Pass shopping center at U.S. 101 and state Highway 152.
• An interim policy to mitigate for the loss of certain agricultural lands during development.
• An update from Charter Communications on the cable system rebuild in Gilroy.
The budget update begins at 6 p.m. with the regular meeting following at 7 p.m. Both occur in the Council Chambers, Gilroy City Hall, 7351 Rosanna St. For information call 846-0400.
